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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Mon Jun 6 00:51:15 2011, in response to Re: Fox News - Is Government Aid Helping or Hurting Blacks?, posted by Easy on Mon Jun 6 00:47:30 2011. that black mothers choose the government instead of the fatherTo a certain extent, the problem with the American social welfare state is that it basically granted services to a limited client base, single mothers without employment or very low income. This creates a relatively perverse incentive in which poor married couples get nothing as it's presumed that the husband didn't work hard enough or that the wife should go and find work. Thus, we get a situation where women do disavow the existence of the fathers of the children in order to secure cheap or free housing, "money for nothing", and healthcare. The obvious solution is to simply provide the same resources to married couples in order to prevent family breakups. |